Expertise
Material Science
- Halide
- Density
- Perovskite Solar Cell
- Film
- Monolayers
- Energy Levels
Chemistry
- Density Functional Theory
Physics
- First Principle
Organisations
Publications
2026
Chemical Origin of Exciton Self-Trapping in Cs3Cu2X5 Cesium Copper Halides (2026)The Journal of physical chemistry C, 130(19), 6936-6943. Wu, Z., Brocks, G. & Tao, S.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6c02087Halide Diffusion in Mixed-Halide Perovskites and Heterojunctions (2026)Chemistry of materials, 38(9), 4703-4711. Tyagi, V., Pols, M., Brocks, G. & Tao, S.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c00258Self-Healing Beyond Molecular Iodine Locking in Formamidinium Lead Triiodide Perovskites (2026)ACS Energy Letters, 11(3), 2959-2966. Zhao, L., Chi, Y., Wu, Z., Park, J., Kim, J., Qiang, Y., Cao, H., Dai, S., Chen, Y., Brocks, G., Sun, L., Seok, S. I., Tao, S. & Yu, Z.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c00150Dynamic Iodide Regeneration Enabled by Piperazine-Tailored PCBM Interfaces for Photothermally Stable and Efficient Inverted Perovskite Photovoltaics (2026)Angewandte Chemie (international edition), 65(10). Article e6909224. Chen, Y., Wu, Z., Zhao, L., Cao, H., Zheng, X., Liu, R., Brocks, G., Tao, S. & Yu, Z.https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.6909224
2025
How crystallization additives govern halide perovskite grain growth (2025)Nature communications, 16(1). Article 9894. Maschwitz, T., Merten, L., Ünlü, F., Majewski, M., Haddadi Barzoki, F., Wu, Z., Öz, S. D., Kreusel, C., Theisen, M., Wang, P., Schiffer, M., Boccarella, G., Marioth, G., Weidner, H., Schultheis, S., Schieferstein, T., Gidaszewski, D., Julliev, Z., Kneschaurek, E., … Brinkmann, K. O.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65484-7Impact of metal cation on chiral properties of 2D halide perovskites (2025)Physical Review Materials, 9(11). Article 113601. Pols, M., Boom, H., Brocks, G., Calero, S. & Tao, S.https://doi.org/10.1103/mxyl-tqjbChiral Phonons in 2D Halide Perovskites (2025)Nano letters, 25(25), 10003–10009. Pols, M., Brocks, G., Calero, S. & Tao, S.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c01708Tracing Ion Migration in Halide Perovskites with Machine Learned Force Fields (2025)The journal of physical chemistry letters, 16(20), 5153–5159. Tyagi, V., Pols, M., Brocks, G. & Tao, S.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01139Two-dimensional TiNBr as photocatalyst for overall water splitting (2025)Physical Review Materials, 9(2). Article 025802. Wang, Y., Brocks, G., Tayran, C. & Er, S.https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.9.025802Odd-even effects in lead-iodide-based Ruddlesden-Popper 2D perovskites (2025)Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13(24), 18935-18947. Choghaei, M., Schiffer, M., Tyagi, V., Righetto, M., Du, J., Buchmüller, M., Brinkmann, K. O., Brocks, G., Görrn, P., Herz, L. M., Tao, S., Riedl, T. & Olthof, S.https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ta01234a
Research profiles
Courses academic year 2026/2027
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses academic year 2025/2026
- 193599010 - Internship
- 193599039 - Master Thesis: Physics Aspects
- 193599089 - Master Thesis: General Aspects
- 201700185 - Internship
- 201800344 - Master's Assignment: Physics Aspects
- 201800345 - Master's Assignment: General Aspects
- 202001433 - Bachelor’s Assignment AM-AP
- 202200258 - Double Master Thesis: NT-AP
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